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Drone can refer to many things:
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In nature
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In aviation
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In nautics
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In fiction
John Twelve Hawks' fictional novel The Traveller describes drones as being citizens that have become exhausted and overwhelmed by the struggle of living and fight for survival; in a world controlled by the Tabula, whose plans are to control the entire human race by means of intense and intrusive electronic surveillance. Drones differ from the majority of "ordinary citizens" by way of not being ignorant to the truth of what is happening outside of their own day-to-day lives.•
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In music
A part of various musical instruments (such as bagpipes) intended to produce a continuous sustained pitch.
A drone is another name for a bumbass.
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In Internet Relay Chat(IRC)
A drone is a bot or a piece of malicious software which sends spam via IRC.
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In video games
The worker unit for the zerg in Blizzard Entertainment's game StarCraft, and in other space games and fiction they are smallish robots that, much like the honeybee, do repetitive tasks and recon, in Eve online they are drones for seeing outside the ship and attacking enemies, drones or normally discreet and menacing in appearance.
A creature on the video game Halo and is insectoid in nature.
A humanoid-like (when not seemingly totally human) genetic created techno-creature in the "Panzer Dragoon" videogame series for Sega Saturn and Microsoft Xbox. The drones have a sole purpose or fate, and when they accomplish that mission they are "deactivated" by themselves, or have an automatic death. They also can be sleeping or hibernating for thousand of years, until they're required or awaken.
A enemy robot in the game N
A one of the many enemies in the popular N64 game, Jet Force Gemini. These enemies are fairly easy to kill, while bigger versions wield homing rockets.
A machine that acts as an ally and often has combat capabities. In some games, drones are companions, which follow the player's character around. In others, drones are considered a type of weapon and, once fired, will attract enemy fire and fire upon enemies, thus giving the player's character an increased probability of survival.
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